Why Bullshitting Doesn’t Work In College

Throughout high school parents, professors, and many other people assured me I wouldn’t be able to procrastinate in college like I did in high school and get good grades. I realized quite quickly, this year, that keeping my bad habits and still getting good grades was a piece of cake. What took me until the…

Cole Cuchna: Discussing Sensitive Topics Effectively

Season 1 Episode 15 of the Dissect podcast analyzed Kendrick Lamar’s song “The Blacker The Berry” off of his album To Pimp A Butterfly. Cole Cuchna, the host of Dissect, is a 33 year old, white, American from Sacramento, California. Having analyzed albums such as IGOR, good kid, m.A.A.d city, and To Pimp A Butterfly,…

Outta Sight Herky

The Outta Sight Herky is very colorful and primarily focuses on the 60s-70s peace movement style. This includes very rainbow, poly-chromatic color schemes on tie dye spirals and flowy words. Words such as FAB, PEACE, GROOVY, FREEDOM, BIG KAHUNA, and LOVE appear in flowy, colorful bubble letters. The black and white yin-yang symbol appears on…

A Very Vehement Vendetta

Commonly referred to as the “V-Speech” or “V-Monologue”, V in V for Vendetta professes his raison d’etre through an articulate work of alliteration to a woman he just saved from being assaulted. This speech performed by a masked man as an informal improvisation serves as the foundation for the speech’s effectiveness. The speaker being a…

A Magical Sine Wave

Consumed by frequency response graphs, whether my cables are made of copper or beryllium, and the theoretical ‘wideness’ of a sound stage, I belong to the commonplace that having quality audio products can fundamentally alter the way you appreciate music. This all began the night I setup my first pair of quality speakers, a pair…

Diego Rivera: The Scrambled Eggs of People

Hi, This is who Diego Omar Rivera is in a nutshell. I can be verbose at times due to always wanting a multifaceted, accurate, and holistic understanding. I’m an audiophile when it comes to speakers, headphones, and vinyl records. Subsequently, I also listen to an insane amount of music (according to Spotify Wrapped I listened…